Melinda Gates Fights Childhood Malnutrition

Fighting malnutrition is one of the most cost-effective – and under-appreciated – ways to save children’s lives in the developing world, said Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s wealthiest charities.

And the best ways to fight childhood malnutrition are breastfeeding, supplementing foods with vitamins, developing vitamin-rich crops and, yes, possibly using biotech crops, Ms. Gates said in an interview in Brussels.

This week, the Gates Foundation announced that it will spend $776 million on child nutrition in the developing world (“A drop in the bucket,” she said.)